Colette Copeland

While much has been written about Milton Avery’s work, I was unfamiliar with that of his wife and daughter. In researching their work, I became aware of what has been termed the “Avery style”.

The culmination of the music, the visuals, and the audience was a poignant and moving experience, one that I will no longer take for granted within the context of the pandemic.

"I think there is something vulnerable, yet a necessary vulnerability, about acknowledging how relation, love, sex, children, and survival are all mixed up."

"I was looking for a way to enter into a century-long fight that encompassed thousands of locations, women and people."

"I think deep down, I understood that this subject deserved a big shift from me."

"My concerns with human activities and their effects on our environment often find their way into the sculptures through analogy, concept and thought."

A walkthrough of shows the Old Jail Art Center in Albany, and Jody Klotz Fine Art in Abilene.

"The objects have also become significant as symbols for #BLM. It’s interesting how both sides appropriate the objects for their own use."

"I was more interested in the high drama of the opera, combined with the irrationality of Dada’s legacy in response to the savagery in the world."

Shirin Neshat's retrospective exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is made up of her acclaimed oeuvre of photography, video and film from the past 30 years.

"Living in these characters gives me a freedom to explore what it feels like to embrace emotion and let it do what it needs to — through sadness or confusion or strange sexiness or filth or isolation." 

During the shutdown, the acclaimed artist residency has a bit of extra room to host an informal writing residency in collaboration with Glasstire.

During the shutdown, the acclaimed artist residency has a bit of extra room to host an informal writing residency in collaboration with Glasstire.

If you're in DFW, I'd consider this a must-see event.

For the past 40 years, Deborah Butterfield has been creating large-scale sculptures of horses. Her work is currently on view at The Old Jail Art Center in Albany.

I felt a bit like Alice down the rabbit hole: the surreal quality of masked visitors quietly whispering oohs and ahhs, while I played detective trying to locate and identify the local artists’ work.

While the images may appear tame today, they very much defied the cultural decorum of their time and place. 

"Most recently, our project employs live performance and investigates how we can cope in a world that seems impossible."

"Privacy is an abstract idea that we shove in a box and store in the attic when the immediate gratification and dopamine release from Pokemon Go calls to us."

"My work speaks of the uncomfortable. It makes viewers uncomfortable because uncomfortable is the air I breathe."